About this Event
Doors 7pm; Signups 7:15pm; Showtime 7:30pm.
2 songs or 10 minutes maximum (all originals preferred).
5 Comedians per night. To schedule, contact Charlotte Laughs Tonight on Facebook.
Come on out! Grab your guitar, keyboard, ukulele, kazoo or whatever and come on down to the best Open MIC in these parts.
Slow Parade is the musical messenger of songwriter Matthew Pendrick. Based in the fertile landscape of Atlanta, Georgia, Slow Parade distills a familiar recipe of Roots, Blues and Country into a potent elixir once known as Rock & Roll. Slow Parade's 3rd LP Maybe You'll Come Around Again follows closely on the heels of 2020's psychedelia soaked ‘Hi-Fi LowLife’ but pares it all down to its barest essentials: a band, a room, and a keen eye for the song.
Born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, Slow Parade leader Matthew Pendrick came up during a creative heyday in one of the South’s small town artistic meccas. As a kid, Pendrick honed his musical chops while busking under the tutelage of notorious street musician ‘Guitar Red’. Soaking up the city’s deep musical history while digging down through the roots, Pendrick has shared the stage with many of the South’s musical torch bearers as well as contemporaries as diverse as Daniel Romano, CW Stoneking , Anderson East, and Israel Nash . After a decade and half spent touring, writing, and recording , often as a sideman for some of the souths most promising talent , Slow Parade is eager to step out on his own and kick transmission in high gear.
It’s latest LP, 'Maybe You'll Come Around Again' finds Slow Parade digging new holes in old dirt, following in the footsteps of their folksy forefathers down the path that lies in service of the song. With echoes of Harvest-era Neil Young or the Band's more clear eyed moments at Big Pink, the album strips back the shiny veneer of digital technology in search of something less. These songs exist in the here and the now: a reality as hazy as a Sunday morning hangover. Pendrick’s characters are low on gas, incurious of redemption, and probably high on something. They slouch towards the lucidity lurking under every pounding headache from a good time Saturday night. "Not much left sacred nor profane," Pendrick yawps out in the frenzied final stanza of “Junker In the Fast Lane” a rowdy anthem to a headstrong jalopy. The song's swampy New Orleans groove lurches like a raucous junkyard jam between Allen Toussaint and ZZ Top.
*If you are over 21 but do not have a legal ID, State law prohibits us from serving you adult alcoholic beverages. There is a $5 surcharge at the door if you are under 21. Under 18 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.*
Event venue & nearby stays
The Evening Muse, 3227 N. Davidson Street, Charlotte, United States
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